Limitations of Avid Adrenaline?

Adrenaline has SD I/O only, unless you buy one with the DNxcel option card, which gives you HD-SDI I/O as well. But only one stream of HD with Adrenaline.

Nitris (the original, often called Classic Nitris these days) only works with Symphony. It has been replaced by the Nitris DX.

Symphony is an expanded version of MC, it has all of the features of MC, plus Universal HD Mastering, and some extra color correction features.

Nitris DX will give you all SD and HD I/O's, plus - like classic Nitris - it accelerates MC and Symphony, and has plenty of bandwidth for more than just one stream of HD.

Ian,
Adrenaline works fine in HD as long as you stay in DNxHD.
(that is, if you have the HD board)
If you use XDcam imports, you're limited to playback half quality.
(good enough for offline though...)
It also has all the connectors you like, including LTC in/out.

Since you're on a budget, totally forget about uncompressed HD.
What on earth would you need that for?
Uncompressed HD is for very high end movies.
Normal people shoot / edit / deliver compressed.
(and that goes for broadcasters as well. Even George Lucas shoots compressed...

reminds me, do you still have my board?



Bouke

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